1. The Lockman Hole with LOFAR: Searching for GPS and CSS sources at low frequencies
- Author
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Raffaella Morganti, Isabella Prandoni, Elizabeth K. Mahony, and I. van Bemmel
- Subjects
Physics ,education.field_of_study ,Field (physics) ,business.industry ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Spectral window ,Population ,Astronomy ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,02 engineering and technology ,LOFAR ,01 natural sciences ,Source Population ,Space and Planetary Science ,0103 physical sciences ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Global Positioning System ,Radio frequency ,business ,education ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics - Abstract
The Lockman Hole Project is a wide international collaboration aimed at exploiting the multi-band extensive and deep information available for the Lockman Hole region, with the aim of better characterizing the physical and evolutionary properties of the various source populations detected in deep radio fields. Recent observations with the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) extends the multi-frequency radio information currently available for the Lockman Hole (from 350 MHz up to 15 GHz) down to 150 MHz, allowing us to explore a new radio spectral window for the faint radio source population. These LOFAR observations allow us to study the population of sources with spectral peaks at lower radio frequencies, providing insight into the evolution of GPS and CSS sources. In this general framework, I present preliminary results from 150 MHz LOFAR observations of the Lockman Hole field. (© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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- 2016